All Tolkien, All the Time: Not really; but via Colby Cosh comes this fascinating little tidbit on that professor's work on the Oxford English Dictionary. A sample of Tolkien's handwriting is included; apparently he always wrote in Elvish.
Addendum: as concerns manual typewriters; I've got an old Olivetti "portable" (meaning it's small, and has no "1" key -- you have to substitute the small "L"). I bought it for US$75.00 at a local old office stuff place; it's got little round black keys, and the rest has the sort of immovable solidity that one rarely sees nowadays, when everything that wasn't wood or cloth was made in a forge. Pounding on it is indeed a satisfying experience, and good exercise too, or at least better on your carpal tunnels than computer keyboards.
Posted by Andrea Harris at January 1, 2003 03:25 AMManual typewriter: fun for a change.
So now you will do the writing on the typewriter and scan it in to post as a picture?
Posted by: John Anderson at January 1, 2003 at 09:08 AM